The Expanse

Ep reminded me of the last season of GoT where they turned off fast travel and wasted so much time moving from point A to B. Any other season it's a solid 7/10 episode, knowing there's only 2 more episodes it felt a bit meh.

Also Drummer <3
 
Cara Gee is fantastic in the roll of drummer. Perfect casting and has made the roll her own looking forward to what happens if it goes by the books ,:)
 
uvarvu said:
Yep with the exception of Drummer it was a filler episode for me.
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I would go further and say it was pretty much an empty episode. I know I've moaned about the complete lack of adherence to the books, but even if you accept they had to rewrite the whole thing to condense the story, deal with Cas Anwar getting disgraced, filming with Covid limitations etc., Ep4 just drifted along with no sense of direction at all. They only have six episodes in total and this to me was a complete waste of 45 minutes, numerous disjointed elements
like the brief scenes again on Laconia, the navel gazing on the Roci, Marco's posturing and Fillip blowing hot and cold
that came across as a series of separate short stories. I just hope they have a stroke of genius to knit the whole thing together in the remaining 90 minutes of screen time.

Wife just commented and I agree, that Season 1 - 3 were really the Expanse as envisaged from the novels. Season 4 wasn't too bad though the Bobby side story was a bit of a stretch. Season 5 it started to go downhill and sorry to say Season 6 is a thorough disappointment.
 
XPE said:
Do we know if maybe we are getting a feature length final episode?
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Episode 5 is supposedly 48 minutes so about the same as this week's. And the last is around an hour, from hearsay. I know I'll enjoy it but it's not a lot of time.
 
Frustrating to see them building up the

Cara and Xan story

that's so prominent in books 7-9 when we're not going to see it...for a long time at least.
 
So Holden DID disarm the torpedo to spare naomi and filip :( flimsy and weak writing.

I enjoyed the episode, but considering nothing much happened and there are only 2 left - bit of a wasted episode!
 
Just looking at the season 6 trailer again, a fair few scenes we haven't seen yet look to be in and around the ring.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
So Holden DID disarm the torpedo to spare naomi and filip :( flimsy and weak writing.
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Disagree, totally in keeping with his character. Holden is a bit like Jon Snow, he'll always do what he thinks is right, regardless if it's not necessarily the best course of action. There's no way he'd be able to watch on while someone executes Filip while he's helpless. If the Pella was fighting back then sure, he'd have let it hit. But no way with it belly up.
 
As frustrating as Jim's actions are, it's absolutely in line with the character we've come to know over the years. One of the things that that make the show stand out is characters act realistically, not doing random acts to push the story on.
 
Washout said:
Disagree, totally in keeping with his character. Holden is a bit like Jon Snow, he'll always do what he thinks is right, regardless if it's not necessarily the best course of action. There's no way he'd be able to watch on while someone executes Filip while he's helpless. If the Pella was fighting back then sure, he'd have let it hit. But no way with it belly up.
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I get he is a stand up type of guy - but c'mon, that is taking it to the very extreme. We are talking stopping a war that is going on across several planets and through space itself. That's a helluva stretch!
 
The debate is interesting but it never happened in the books, so at best it was a plot device introduced by the screen(re)writers to generate a couple of scenes on the Roci and elsewhere.
 
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